Aside

Adam Rawles

Contact Info

Projects

teacheR

  • A book aimed at beginners to the R programming language. Hosted at https://teacher.arawles.co.uk. This book also forms the basis for my R course.

opeRate

BMRSr

  • An R package that provides functions to better access the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service API provided by ELEXON. This API allows access to a large repository of historical and realtime energy-related data. Documentation hosted at https:///bmrsr.arawles.co.uk.

faviconR

  • An R package providing a set of lightweight wrapper functions to the RealFaviconGenerator.net API, used to generate favicons.

Disclaimer

Last updated on 2021-02-08.

Main

Adam Rawles

Professional Experience

Data Analyst

Guernsey Financial Services Commission

Guernsey, CI

2019 - Current

  • Recreated and automated the generation of various data reports using R.
  • Created a Shiny-based UI for users to interact with the report generator.
  • I was the lead developer for a project utilising machine-learning and advanced modelling to improve financial regulation
  • Developed and implemented a tool to flag problematic documents to supervisors based on a neural-network
  • Implented a completely custom R repository that utilised automatic-building tools and a RESTful API
  • Further developed and delivered R training materials (teacheR and opeRate)

Graduate Data Analyst

ELEXON

London, UK

2018 - 2019

  • Performance Assurance Review team
    • 6 months
    • Implemented a new risk simulation, utilising a Monte-Carlo methodology in R to better estimate the financial cost associated with specific risks.
  • Market Analysis team
    • Automated and updated market reports, allowing them to be automatically published to the ELEXON website with custom HTML widgets to allow for greater user interaction.
    • Developed an R package to facilitate the extraction of energy-related data from the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service API provided by ELEXON called BMRSr.
  • First developed materials to teach R to beginners that would eventually become the teacheR and opeRate books.

Education

Cardiff University

First Class Honors - BSc. Psychology

Cardiff, UK

2014 - 2018

Project: An Evaluation of Spatial Representations of Order and the Efficacy of Online Studies

  • Designed an online and lab-based version of a cognitive psychology experiment testing the relationship between actual and represented differences between items in a list.
  • Extended the functionality of the developing PsychoJS software to run the experiment online.
  • Analysed the difference in responses between the online and lab versions of the study as a secondary research topic.

Skills

R

N/A

N/A

  • 5+ of experience both using and teaching the R programming language.

  • Experienced in applying various statistical methods with R

  • Ability to build and implement machine learning models using TensorFlow and the keras interface

Data Analysis

N/A

N/A

  • Highly skilled in data presentation and reporting

  • Extensive experience in data extraction from SQL databases and experience with database design and maintenance.

Development

N/A

N/A

  • Many years of experience using development-workflow tools including Git, Github and Azure DevOps

  • Experience creating and maintaining build and release pipelines